Bereavement Pool: The Final Update
Many buckets have been kicked since the last update, boosting Brian B's wife into the lead and boobs' roommate potentially onto the podium. Harold Pinter (Red Menace, Man Mountain and Alan) and "Deep Throat" (Red Menace, boobs' roommate) met their demises, as did Sammy Baugh (boobs' roommate), Old Edna Parker (Alan) and Studs Terkel (Mrs. B). Everyone but Brian B and my mom have hit something.
I'm curious who all will want to play again next year. I'm definitely open to running the thing again. It shouldn't be too much work to roll the thing over, although there's probably not enough time to start by Jan. 1. Maybe if we do another, we'll run it from Feb. 1-Dec. 31. Anyone interested?
Remember, the contest runs though 11:59 p.m. on December 31, so we've got about a week to go. Good luck to those in the hunt!
Here are the updated rankings. Let me know if I've fucked something up:
1. Brian B's wife: 197 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi, Bo Diddley, Studs Terkel)
2. boobs: 185 points (Bobby Murcer, Tony Snow)
3. boobs' roommate: 166 points (Charlton Heston, Jesse Helms, Sammy Baugh, W. Mark Felt)
4. Red Menace: 164 points (Charlton Heston, Bo Diddley, Harold Pinter, W. Mark Felt)
5. ctnyc: 136 points (Harvey Korman, Paul Newman)
6. Alan: 128 points (Bo Diddley, Edna Parker, Harold Pinter)
7. 3 fast: 66 points (Estelle Getty)
8. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
9. Man Mountain: 47 points (Harold Pinter)
10. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
10. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
10. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
13: Gray: 39 points (Jesse Helms)
And here are the updated rosters:
3 fast
- Stephen Hawking
- Phyllis Diller
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Mary Kate Olsen $$
- Keith Richards
- Cesar Laurean $$
- Nelson Mandela $$
- Dick Vitale $$
- Dick Clark
- Joe Paterno $$
- Fidel Castro
- Yogi Berra $$
- Ariel Sharon
- Stan Musial $$
- Jerry Lewis $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- John Wooden
- Jack Kevorkian
- Billy Graham
- Estelle Getty $$
- Dom DeLouise $$
- Jack Klugman
- Margaret Thatcher
- Gary Glitter $$
- Kenny Baker $$
- David Prowse $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
- Lou Henson $$
- Hamid Karzai
- Bo Diddley
- Diego Maradona $$
- Pervez Musharraf
- Roger Ebert
- Andy Fordham $$
- Harold Pinter
- Roh Tae-woo $$
- Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
- Howard Dill $$
- Edna Parker $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- George H.W. Bush
- Al Davis $$
- Billy Graham
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
- George Steinbrenner
- B.B. King $$
- Omar bin Laden $$
- James Earl Jones $$
- Charlie Watts $$
- Ralph Wilson $$
- Jimmy Carter
- Amy Winehouse
- Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
- Abe Vigoda
- Pete Doherty
- Paul McCartney $$
- Fidel Castro
- Eddie Van Halen $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Farrah Fawcett
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Fidel Castro
- Tony Snow $$
- Tony Yayo $$
- Bobby Murcer $$
- Muhammad Ali
- Soupy Sales $$
- George Steinbrenner
- Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Billy Graham
- Lil Wayne $$
- Jack Kevorkian
- Doyle Brunson $$
- Fyvush Finkel $$
- Sen. Robert Byrd $$
- Pete Doherty
- Bob Barker
- Barack Obama $$
- Dick Cheney
- Keith Richards
- Ernest Borgnine
- Phyllis Diller
- Ted Kennedy $$
- Jimmy Carter
- John Travolta $$
- Farrah Fawcett
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Kirk Douglas
- Colin Farrell $$
- Joan Collins $$
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Liza Minelli $$
- Robin Williams $$
- Loretta Lynn $$
- Brigitte Nielsen $$
- Connie Stevens $$
- John Daly $$
- Elizabeth Edwards
- John Wooden
- W. Mark Felt
- Ariel Sharon
- Billy Graham
- Ralph Stanley $$
- Sammy Baugh $$
- Lee MacPhail $$
- Bobby Doerr $$
- Russell Watson $$
- Charlton Heston
- Jesse Helms
- Fidel Castro
- Karl Malden
- Prince Philip $$
- Margaret Thatcher
- Ali al-Sistani $$
- Betty Ford
- Stuart Scott $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Mike Tyson ## $$
- Ralph Houk $$
- Billy Graham
- Ed McMahon $$
- John Wooden
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Millvina Dean $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Paul Harvey
- Ariel Sharon
- Walter Cronkite
- Orlando Thomas $$
- Larry Hagman $$
- Andy Griffith
- Don Baylor $$
- Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
- Farrah Fawcett
- Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
- Gary Coleman $$
- Fidel Castro
- Ariel Sharon
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Studs Terkel $$
- Jack Klugman
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- Paul Harvey
- Bo Diddley
- Olivia de Havilland $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Britney Spears ##
- Roger Ebert
- Ron Santo
- Miep Gies $$
- Hamid Karzai
- Amy Winehouse
- Karl Malden
- Betty Ford
- Robert Mondavi $$
- Harvey Korman $$
- Karl Malden
- Andy Griffith
- Pervez Musharraf
- Fidel Castro
- John Wooden
- Paul Newman $$
- Dick Clark
- Robert Downey Jr. $$
- Jack Klugman
- Monte Irvin $$
- Robert McNamara $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Conrad Dobler $$
- Nancy Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- Phyllis Diller
- Abe Vigoda
- Muhammad Ali
- Walter Cronkite
- Doris Lessing $$
- Rick Majerus $$
- Pete Doherty
- Amy Winehouse
- Haley Joel Osment $$
- Jesse Helms
- Farrah Fawcett
- Betty Ford
- Fidel Castro
- Pervez Musharraf
- Jack Kevorkian
- Ariel Sharon
- Kirk Douglas
- Louis Farrakhan
- Billy Graham
- Kenneth Arrow $$
- Paul Samuelson $$
- Ronald Coase $$
- Maya Angelou $$
- Nadine Gordimer $$
- Muhammed Ali
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Amy Winehouse
- Pete Doherty
- Andy Dick $$
- Bob Barker
- Charlton Heston
- John Wooden
- Barbara Bush $$
- Kirstie Alley $$
- Queen Elizabeth
- Abe Vigoda
- Gerald Ford ++
- Fidel Castro
- JD Salinger $$
- Britney Spears $$
- Lindsay Lohan $$
- Betty White $$
- Hillary Clinton $$
- Clint Eastwood $$
- Gladys Knight $$
- Harry Morgan $$
- Courtney Love
- Charlton Heston
- Dick Clark
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Amy Whinehouse
- Mickey Rooney $$
- Lady Bird Johnson ++
- Fidel Castro
- Bob Howsam $$
- Bill Clinton $$
- Sally Field $$
- Michael Vick $$
- Rush Lumbaugh $$
- Courtney Love
- Wolfgang Puck $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Morgan Freeman $$
- George Lucas $$
- Hal Holbrook $$
- Boy George $$
- David Lee Roth $$
- Mary Tyler Moore $$
- Jack Nicholson $$
- Elton John $$
- Dick Cheney
- Josh Hamilton $$
- David Copperfield $$
- Jane Fonda $$
- John Wooden
- Ernest Borgnine
- Billy Graham
- Seamus Heaney $$
- Nancy Reagan
- Sir Bobby Robson $$
- George Mitchell $$
- Stephen Baldwin $$
- Patricia Neal $$
- Maxine Kumin $$
- Natasha Lyonne $$
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Muhammad Ali
- Ed Asner $$
- Harold Pinter
- Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Bashar Assad $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Farrah Fawcett
- Ron Springs $$
- Muhammad Ali
- Stephen Hawking
- Ron Santo
- Louis Farrakhan
- George Steinbrenner
- Harold Pinter
- Ronnie Biggs $$
- Jack Kevorkian
- Ariel Sharon
- Bo Diddley
- Fidel Castro
- Charlton Heston
- W. Mark Felt
- Peter O'Toole $$
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Billy Graham
- Kirk Douglas
- King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$
Alan
BLee
boobs
boobs' mom
boobs' roommate
Brian B
Brian B's wife
ctnyc
Gray
JD
JD's wife
Madville
Man Mountain
Red Menace
Legend:
$$: Unique pick, worth 25-point bonus.
++: JD and wife entered only 15 picks, and each picked a person who was already dead. I got their entries right up against the deadline, so they have accepted their disadvantaged fate.
##: Replaced Steve Fossett.
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wow
Three people picked Harold Pinter?
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
by BubbaFan on
Dec 25, 2008 11:14 PM EST
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I'm in for next year
First choice: Dakota Fanning.
by Brendanukkah on
Dec 26, 2008 1:46 AM EST
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I definitely want in for next year
I’ve already got someone in mind who I think is a stone cold lock. I just hope they don’t die before the rosters are to be turned in.
You went full retard. No one ever comes back from that. - Sgt. Osiris
by cesarhernandez on
Dec 26, 2008 11:38 AM EST
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The Bereavement Poll is one of the most uplifting features of RR.
Of course I’ll be back, barring my own death,,,I’ll be 60 in January…
One of my greatest hopes is that the Death Pool becomes a yearly staple at RR, at least until Mart T. Moore kicks it,
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on
Dec 26, 2008 11:44 AM EST
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will you be pissed if I list madville as a choice?
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack
by justin007000 on
Dec 26, 2008 7:32 PM EST
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Nah - but you'd better fucking win.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on
Dec 27, 2008 1:09 AM EST
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Anyone taking Slyde?
I mean he IS going to FL to play ball for a week….most likely against well-heeled alpha males who are looking to relive their youth. Or, more likely, someone else’s! There will be a lot of pent up aggression, extreme physical exertion and most likely binge drinking!!!
Will the Reds cheerleaders be there? : )
by obc2 on
Dec 27, 2008 12:22 PM EST
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No
but middle aged women who always wanted to be Reds cheerleaders will be there.
by Red Menace on
Dec 27, 2008 12:59 PM EST
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And Freel will keep their mornings busy.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on
Dec 29, 2008 7:16 PM EST
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count me in ... and probably my wife too
"I never use a big word when a diminutive one will work." — Pete Mackanin.
by joshuar9476 on
Dec 27, 2008 6:11 PM EST
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oh yeah
count me in.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack
by justin007000 on
Dec 27, 2008 7:33 PM EST
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madville will be on my list
i hope he doesn’t push me over the top.
I’d hate for there to be anyone who would think fall play was involved.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack
by justin007000 on
Dec 28, 2008 8:54 PM EST
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"I’d hate for there to be anyone who would think fall play was involved."
Ladies & Gentlemen, your 2009 Cincinnati Reds!!!
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
by jch24 on
Dec 28, 2008 9:44 PM EST
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Classic justin, unbreachable truth
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on
Dec 29, 2008 7:17 PM EST
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Well justin, your hopes ride on the biopsy
….the test should be back 1st of the year or so.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
by Madville on
Dec 30, 2008 1:01 AM EST
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I'm in this time.
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on
Dec 27, 2008 7:53 PM EST
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i also would like to play
Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill
by chandrathan on
Dec 27, 2008 7:58 PM EST
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Can I just renew my list from 2008?
I don’t know what those fuckers are waiting for.
by Brian B on
Dec 27, 2008 10:23 PM EST
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HA!
"I never use a big word when a diminutive one will work." — Pete Mackanin.
by joshuar9476 on
Dec 28, 2008 10:58 AM EST
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I'm in next year
although it might be testing fate, lol.
Reds Win! Reds Win! Oh my God the Reds Win!! When did we become the Indians?
by Caleb on
Dec 29, 2008 10:32 PM EST
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I'm in
All Mickey Mouse films are founded on the motif of leaving home in order to learn what fear is.
by Man Mountain on
Dec 30, 2008 2:31 PM EST
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I'm in
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck
by PeteyHendrix on
Jan 1, 2009 5:10 PM EST
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its over
these standings… stand. A recap post is on its way. Congratulations to Brian B’s wife.
What do you mean, "blank slate"?
by boobs on
Jan 2, 2009 9:02 PM EST
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2 points out of the money
I needed me some Studs Terkel.
by Red Menace on
Jan 3, 2009 11:48 AM EST
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